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Tennessee's 2nd congressional district

Index Tennessee's 2nd congressional district

The 2nd congressional district of Tennessee is a congressional district in Tennessee. [1]

75 relations: Abraham McClellan (Tennessee politician), Albert Galiton Watkins, Alcoa, Tennessee, American Civil War, Barry Goldwater, Bean Station, Tennessee, Coal mining, Confederate States of America, Dandridge, Tennessee, Democratic Party (United States), Democratic-Republican Party, East Tennessee, Farragut, Tennessee, George W. Campbell, Grand Divisions of Tennessee, Harrogate, Tennessee, Henry R. Gibson, Horace Maynard, Howard Baker, Howard Baker Sr., Irene Baker, J. Will Taylor, Jacksonian democracy, Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh, Jefferson City, Tennessee, Jellico, Tennessee, Jimmy Duncan (politician), John Alexander Cocke, John C. Houk, John Duncan Sr., John Jennings (American politician), John Sevier, Know Nothing, Knoxville, Tennessee, Lenoir City, Tennessee, Leonidas C. Houk, List of United States congressional districts, Loudon, Tennessee, Maryville, Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee, Nathan W. Hale, National Republican Party, Opposition Party (Southern U.S.), Planter class, Powell, Tennessee, Pryor Lea, Reconstruction era, Republican Party (United States), Richard Nixon, ..., Richard W. Austin, Robert Weakley, Rutledge, Tennessee, Safe seat, Samuel Bunch, Secession in the United States, Slavery, Tazewell, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee Supreme Court, Tennessee's 1st congressional district, Tennessee's 3rd congressional district, Tennessee's 4th congressional district, Tennessee's at-large congressional district, Tennessee's congressional districts, Thomas Dickens Arnold, Union (American Civil War), Unionist Party (United States), Whig Party (United States), William Grainger Blount, William Henry Sneed, William Michael Cocke, William Montgomery Churchwell, William Tandy Senter, 1980 United States Census. Expand index (25 more) »

Abraham McClellan (Tennessee politician)

Abraham McClellan (October 4, 1789 – May 3, 1866) was an American politician that represented Tennessee's 2nd district in the United States House of Representatives from 1837 to 1843.

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Albert Galiton Watkins

Albert Galiton Watkins (May 5, 1818 – December 5, 1895) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives.

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Alcoa, Tennessee

Alcoa is a city in Blount County, Tennessee, United States, south of Knoxville.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Barry Goldwater

Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was an American politician, businessman, and author who was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–65, 1969–87) and the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in 1964.

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Bean Station, Tennessee

Bean Station is a city in Grainger County in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.

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Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.), commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was an unrecognized country in North America that existed from 1861 to 1865.

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Dandridge, Tennessee

Dandridge is a town in Jefferson County, Tennessee, United States.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Democratic-Republican Party

The Democratic-Republican Party was an American political party formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison around 1792 to oppose the centralizing policies of the new Federalist Party run by Alexander Hamilton, who was secretary of the treasury and chief architect of George Washington's administration.

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East Tennessee

East Tennessee comprises approximately the eastern third of the U.S. state of Tennessee, one of the three Grand Divisions of Tennessee defined in state law.

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Farragut, Tennessee

Farragut is a town located in Knox County, Tennessee, and is a suburb of Knoxville.

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George W. Campbell

George Washington Campbell (February 9, 1769February 17, 1848) was an American statesman who served as a U.S. Representative, Senator, Tennessee Supreme Court Justice, U.S. Ambassador to Russia and the 5th United States Secretary of the Treasury from February to October 1814.

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Grand Divisions of Tennessee

The Grand Divisions are three geographic regions in the U.S. state of Tennessee, each constituting roughly one-third of the state's land area, that are geographically, culturally, legally, and economically distinct.

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Harrogate, Tennessee

Harrogate is a city in Claiborne County, Tennessee, United States.

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Henry R. Gibson

Henry Richard Gibson (December 24, 1837 – May 25, 1938) was an American attorney and politician who represented Tennessee's 2nd district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1895 to 1905.

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Horace Maynard

Horace Maynard (August 30, 1814 – May 3, 1882) was an American educator, attorney, politician and diplomat active primarily in the second half of the 19th century.

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Howard Baker

Howard Henry Baker Jr. (November 15, 1925 June 26, 2014) was an American politician and diplomat who served as a Republican United States Senator from Tennessee, Senate Minority Leader, then Senate Majority Leader.

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Howard Baker Sr.

Howard Henry Baker Sr. (January 12, 1902 – January 7, 1964) was an American politician and a United States Representative from Tennessee.

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Irene Baker

Edith Irene Bailey Baker (November 17, 1901 – April 2, 1994) was an American politician and a United States Representative from Tennessee.

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J. Will Taylor

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Jacksonian democracy

Jacksonian democracy is a 19th-century political philosophy in the United States that espoused greater democracy for the common man as that term was then defined.

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Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh

Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh (July 3, 1837– September 19, 1890) was an American attorney and politician who represented Tennessee's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1873 to 1879.

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Jefferson City, Tennessee

Jefferson City is a city in Jefferson County, Tennessee, United States.

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Jellico, Tennessee

Jellico is a city in Campbell County, Tennessee, United States, on the state border with Kentucky, by road north of Knoxville.

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Jimmy Duncan (politician)

John James Duncan Jr. (born July 21, 1947) is the U.S. Representative for, serving since 1988.

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John Alexander Cocke

John Alexander Cocke (1772 – February 16, 1854) was an American politician and soldier who represented Tennessee's 2nd district in the United States House of Representatives from 1819 to 1827.

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John C. Houk

John Chiles Houk (February 26, 1860 – June 3, 1923) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 2nd congressional district of Tennessee.

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John Duncan Sr.

John James Duncan Sr. (March 24, 1919 – June 21, 1988) was an American attorney and Republican politician who represented Tennessee's 2nd Congressional District in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1965 until his death in 1988.

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John Jennings (American politician)

John Jennings Jr. (June 6, 1880 – February 27, 1956) was an American Republican, and a U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1939 to 1951.

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John Sevier

John Sevier (September 23, 1745 September 24, 1815) was an American soldier, frontiersman and politician, and one of the founding fathers of the State of Tennessee.

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Know Nothing

The Native American Party, renamed the American Party in 1855 and commonly known as the Know Nothing movement, was an American nativist political party that operated nationally in the mid-1850s.

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Knoxville, Tennessee

Knoxville is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Knox County.

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Lenoir City, Tennessee

Lenoir City is a city in Loudon County, Tennessee, United States.

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Leonidas C. Houk

Leonidas Campbell Houk (June 8, 1836 – May 25, 1891) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 2nd congressional district of Tennessee.

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List of United States congressional districts

Congressional districts for the United States House of Representatives are electoral divisions for the purpose of electing members of the House of Representatives.

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Loudon, Tennessee

Loudon is a city in and the county seat of Loudon County, Tennessee, United States.

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Maryville, Tennessee

Maryville is a city and the county seat of Blount County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.

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Nathan W. Hale

Nathan Wesley Hale (February 11, 1860 – September 16, 1941) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 2nd congressional district of Tennessee.

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National Republican Party

The National Republican Party, also known as the Anti-Jacksonian Party and sometimes the Adams Party, was a political party in the United States, which evolved from a faction of the Democratic-Republican Party.

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Opposition Party (Southern U.S.)

The Opposition Party was a third party in the South in the years immediately prior to the Civil War.

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Planter class

The planter class, known alternatively in the United States as the Southern aristocracy, was a socio-economic caste of pan-American society that dominated seventeenth- and eighteenth-century agricultural markets through the forced labor of enslaved Africans.

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Powell, Tennessee

Powell is an unincorporated community in Knox County, Tennessee, United States.

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Pryor Lea

Pryor Lea (August 31, 1794 – September 14, 1879) was an American politician and railroad entrepreneur who represented Tennessee's 2nd district in the United States House of Representatives from 1827 to 1831.

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Reconstruction era

The Reconstruction era was the period from 1863 (the Presidential Proclamation of December 8, 1863) to 1877.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.

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Richard W. Austin

Richard Wilson Austin (August 26, 1857 – April 20, 1919) was an American politician, attorney and diplomat.

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Robert Weakley

Robert Weakley (July 20, 1764 – February 4, 1845) was an American politician who represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives from 1809 to 1811.

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Rutledge, Tennessee

Rutledge is a town in Grainger County, Tennessee, United States.

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Safe seat

A safe seat is an electoral district (constituency) in a legislative body (e.g. Congress, Parliament, City Council) which is regarded as fully secure, for either a certain political party, or the incumbent representative personally or a combination of both.

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Samuel Bunch

Samuel Bunch (December 4, 1786 – December 4, 1849) was an American politician who represented Tennessee's 2nd district in the United States House of Representatives from 1833 to 1837.

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Secession in the United States

In the context of the United States, secession primarily refers to the withdrawal of one or more States from the Union that constitutes the United States; but may loosely refer to leaving a State or territory to form a separate territory or new State, or to the severing of an area from a city or county within a State.

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Slavery

Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property.

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Tazewell, Tennessee

Tazewell is a town in and the county seat of Claiborne County, Tennessee, United States.

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Tennessee

Tennessee (translit) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Tennessee Supreme Court

The Tennessee Supreme Court is the ultimate judicial tribunal of the state of Tennessee.

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Tennessee's 1st congressional district

The Tennessee 1st Congressional District is the congressional district of northeast Tennessee, including all of Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi, and Washington counties and parts of Jefferson County and Sevier County.

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Tennessee's 3rd congressional district

The 3rd Congressional District of Tennessee is a congressional district in East Tennessee.

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Tennessee's 4th congressional district

The 4th Congressional District of Tennessee is a congressional district in southern Tennessee.

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Tennessee's at-large congressional district

Tennessee began with one seat in 1796.

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Tennessee's congressional districts

There are currently nine United States congressional districts in Tennessee based on results from the United States 2010 Census.

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Thomas Dickens Arnold

Thomas Dickens Arnold (May 3, 1798 – May 26, 1870) was an American politician who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives, representing Tennessee's 2nd district from 1831 to 1833, and the 1st district from 1841 to 1843.

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Union (American Civil War)

During the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Union, also known as the North, referred to the United States of America and specifically to the national government of President Abraham Lincoln and the 20 free states, as well as 4 border and slave states (some with split governments and troops sent both north and south) that supported it.

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Unionist Party (United States)

The Unionist Party, later re-named Unconditional Unionist Party, was a political party started after the Compromise of 1850 to define politicians who supported the Compromise.

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Whig Party (United States)

The Whig Party was a political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States.

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William Grainger Blount

William Grainger Blount (1784 – May 21, 1827) was an American politician who represented Tennessee's 2nd district in the United States House of Representatives from 1815 to 1819.

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William Henry Sneed

William Henry Sneed (August 27, 1812 – September 18, 1869) was an American attorney and politician, active initially in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and later in Knoxville, Tennessee, during the mid-19th century.

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William Michael Cocke

William Michael Cocke (July 16, 1815 – February 6, 1896) was an American politician who represented Tennessee's second district in the United States House of Representatives.

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William Montgomery Churchwell

William Montgomery Churchwell was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives.

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William Tandy Senter

William Tandy Senter (May 12, 1801 – August 23, 1848) was an American politician that represented Tennessee's second district in the United States House of Representatives.

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1980 United States Census

The Twentieth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 226,545,805, an increase of 11.4 percent over the 203,184,772 persons enumerated during the 1970 Census.

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Redirects here:

TN-02, United States House of Representatives, Tennessee District 2.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee's_2nd_congressional_district

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